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Columbia County deputies Friday were searching for an armed man who stole drugs from an Evans pharmacy.

A man wearing camoflage clothing, with a net over his head, brandished a handgun at the CVS Pharmacy on North Belair Road at Furys Ferry Road just as the store opened, said Sheriff’s Capt. Sharif Chochol.

The man vaulted the pharmacy counter, took an undetermined number of prescription medications and then fled the store on foot, Chochol said.

A Doctors Hospital spokeswoman incorrectly said Thursday that Eddie Reville, 62, had been treated and released. Reville actually died while in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, spokeswoman Barclay Bishop said Monday.

A deputy found Reville lying in the center median of Jimmie Dyess Parkway at Park West Drive unconscious and not breathing just after midnight on April 17. He had abrasions on his right knee and right arm.

An Evans woman became combative early Friday after deputies pulled her vehicle over to find out if she was involved in a single-vehicle wreck.

When she was stopped by authorities, Ophelia Pantera Overton, 19, of the 770 block of Laurel Springs Court, first refused to get out of her vehicle, according to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident report.